Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Search engines link to a fake website

I know nothing about SEO but a recent issue led me to ask here. Sorry if it breaks the rules.

My wife's website has been up for many years and she gets some regular traffic from people signing up for her classes and services.

For some reason yesterday a few of her clients noticed that searching for "[wife's name]" on Google, Bing or Yahoo still does bring up her website [wife's website].com as the #1 search result with the URL showing next to the link.

However when someone clicks on the link from Google, Bing or Yahoo, they are automatically sent to a fake spam site for pharmacy products instead.

Entering [wife's website].com into any browser still navigates directly to her website.

The web hosting service provider said that it is because of visibility and SEO.

Does that sound right? Is that the issue? TIA

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